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This timelapse from July until December captures the progress of the construction of the high-tech floor for ETpathfinder at Maastricht University’s Faculty of Science and Engineering, as well…

After seven successful editions, CERN Beamline for Schools 2021 is ready to start. This physics competition offers high-school students the unique opportunity to conduct a physics experiment in…

In this most recent edition of PAPERCLIP Broos Vermeulen explains his PhD thesis, Search for production of charginos and neutralinos with a small mass gap to the lightest…

On 27 November, the European Gravitational Observatory (EGO) and the Virgo detector virtually open their doors. Discover the wonderful world of gravitational waves and sign up for this…

Video recordings of Nikhef’s cloud chamber play a central role in an art project by the Dutch-Ukrainian artist Alexandra Hunts. Recently the project COSMIC_RADIATION_11COBALTBLUE had its premiere in…

The video channel of RTV 3Heuvelland, the regional broadcaster for the municipalities of Eijsden-Margraten, Gulpen-Wittem and Vaals, has shared a video about Einstein Telescope. In it, Nikhef researcher…

Dark matter is the greatest enigma of contemporary physics, and many researchers around the world are working on an answer. Also at Nikhef in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Nikhef…

On October 21, the TV programme EenVandaag broadcasted an item about the Einstein Telescope. Nikhef researchers Frank Linde, Gideon Koekoek and Jacco de Vries talked about the ambitious…

‘Strange, this is where the practical rooms were’. Physicist Marcel Vreeswijk stands in an empty theatre hall at CREA, in the diamond-cutting factory where the Physics department was…

Maastricht University will become the first Dutch university to enter the IBM Q Network, a community of Fortune 500 companies, academic institutions, startups and national research labs working…

A gravitational wave detector is a very complex experiment made up of technological challenges and unique components that have to reach an optimal balance, but above all it…

Gravity expert Samaya Nissanke of Nikhef and the UvA is one of the scientific advisors behind a spectacular video installation in the new light museum Nxt Museum in Amsterdam…

The most precise detector for gravitational waves ever has come another bit closer to being realised and there is a fair chance that it will be built in…

Theoretical physicist Melissa van Beekveld received her doctorate from Radboud University on 7 September on groundbreaking calculation methods for particle physicists. Part of her work stems from frustration,…

Op 17 augustus was Auke-Pieter Colijn te gast bij het programma Wetenschap Vandaag op BNR radio. Hij vertelde er over de zoektocht naar donkere materie met het XENON-experiment…

Op 8 september 2020 presenteert New Scientist het nieuwe boek over Stephen Hawking van Leonard Mlodinow. In een rondetafelgesprek gaat de auteur samen met Rasa Muller van Nikhef…

De ATLAS- en CMS-detectoren op CERN hebben gezien hoe het higgsdeeltje ook naar muonen kan vervallen. Nikhef-onderzoeker Tristan du Pree (ATLAS) gaf in het maandblad Scientific American commentaar…

Fenomenologie slaat in de deeltjesfysica de brug tussen theorie en experimenten. Melissa van Beekveld vertelt erover vanuit haar thuiskantoor in Nijmegen in de podcast Makkelijk Praten. Makkelijk Praten…

De Stuart Jay Freedman Award voor Experimentele Kernfysica gaat dit jaar naar Nikhef-onderzoeker Marta Verweij. Dat heeft de American Physical Society (APS) bekend gemaakt. De APS prijst haar…

Gideon Koekoek is onderzoeker en docent bij Nikhef en aan de Universiteit Maastricht. Op 27 juli was hij te gast bij het programma Nieuws en Co op Radio…